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1. Boyers scholarship of integration ?seeks to interpret, draw together, and bring new insight to a research study. It includes discovering patterns and making connections between nursing and other disciplines, which brings meaning to the original work. The actions of locating and using evidence-based practice guidelines are within the scholarship scope of integration (Conrad & Pape, 2014).?
Conrad & Pape provide the current state for nurse educators, with applications to a multidisciplinary approach to caring for pediatric asthma clients in a community
Whereas, Maurana, Wolff, Beck & Simpson (2001) reviews four evidence-based models to document and evaluate scholarly activities that are applicable to community scholarship and propose a new model. Though this is an older article, it provides a historical perspective on community scholarship, along with a ?new? model. The new model extends the definition of a local community to create a national toolkit for the scope of integration. For myself, it provides an appreciate of the journey of the nurse educator.
As I grew up in a rural Midwestern farming community, this type multidisciplinary collaboration/scholarship was a basic necessity due to the lack of healthcare resources. A formal position of nurse educator was nonexistant, every nurse performed as an educator in the only 45 bed hospital in the entire county. Each nurse had to function as a nurse of all areas with an eye towards grassroots networking for innovative solutions.
As psychiatric nurse, mental health is a key community issue to me. The stigma and fear around mental illness persists. As Nurse educators, we each can encourage nurses at all levels of practice to partake in NAMI?s free training for healthcare professionals to improve collaborative care on the clients path to recovery. For nursing students to experience, sitting in a community setting, having persons with mental illness be the experts/scholars is a powerful learning experience. The Nurse educator can assist the students with reflection, discussion and integration of the experience as a foundational learning touchstone.
- Competent Caring: When Mental Illness Becomes a Traumatic Event is an educational video/DVD that was developed through a collaborative effort between NAMI and the Hospital Corporation of America for continuing education training for healthcare staff. The DVD highlights the experience of an individual living with a mental illness, as well as the staff response when he seeks treatment for a mental health crisis in an Emergency Room setting.
- The NAMI Provider Education program helps people who work with individuals living with mental illness understand the experience of mental illness from individual and family perspectives. Through exposure to personal stories, participants may gain tools that increase their empathy and professional skills thereby improving patient care.
Within the hospital setting, the NAMI peer to peer program comes onto the inpatient unit. This provides an entry point to community resources for the inpatient client, families and support system.
NAMI is a powerful partner in community collaboration.
Conard, P. L., & Pape, T. (2014). Roles and Responsibilities Of the Nursing Scholar. Pediatric Nursing, 40(2), 87-90.
Maurana, C., Wolff, M., Beck, B., & Simpson, D. (2001). Working with Our Communities: Moving from Service to Scholarship in the Health Professions. Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 14(2), 207-220.
National Alliance for Mentally Illness(NAMI). Educational Program information. Retrievedhttp://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=Education_Training_and_Peer_Support_Center/
2. Effective care requires a multi-disciplinary approach to be successful. In order to manage, or prevent disease and maintain health, we must treat the whole patient. Illness doesn't just happen. Family history, behaviors, environmental factors, cognition, psychological state and cultural beliefs all impact the health of patients.
Prevention of childhood obesity has become a passion for me. Childhood obesity is caused by a lack of good nutrition and exercise. This can be due to the parent or parents having limited financial resources, unsafe neighborhoods, lack of recreational facilities, depression, food preparation and many other components.
I would love to collaborate with members of the community, the local health clinic, parents, nutritionist, therapists, fitness trainers, doctors, nurses and students to develop a healthy futures campaign. The services would be provided at a reduced cost or free, if possible.
The benefit to the healthcare organization would be the improved community relationship, increased funding, and improving the health of the community. The benefit to the community would be prevention of chronic illness associated with obesity. We would all benefit from the research gathered.
I would integrate student learning by having the students participate in interdisciplinary conferences regarding the patients. I would ask the students questions to promote critical thinking and their understanding of the role of other disciplines in the care of the patients. The multidiscipline approach to obesity would be designed to promote collaboration, and develop an intervention to alter behavior, and lifestyle factors that promote obesity (Lesovic, 2012). Student activities would include interprofessional collaboration to improve communication and teamwork skills (O'keefe, Burgess, McAllister, & Stupans, 2012).
References:
Lesovic, S. (2012). Clinical and laboratory findings in adolescents in "Cigotica" programme from 2008 to 2012. Medicinski Glasnik/ Medial Gazzette, 17(46), 117-128.
O'Keefe, M., Burgess, T., McAllister, S., & Stupans, I. (2012). Twelve tips for supporting student learning in multidisciplinary clinical placements. Medical Teacher, 34(11), 883-887. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.700431
